HANNAH ALTMAN
We Will Return to You
Friday, October 6 - Sunday, October 29, 2023
Opening reception: Friday, October 6, 6 - 8:30pm
Artist talk & closing reception: Sunday, October 29, 2pm
Installation view
Surrounded by environmental, human, and divine obstacles, Jews have shaped their folklore in order to make sense of their surroundings and transfer their memory. The images in We Will Return to You mirrors the ways that these stories are shared across generations by exploring lineage and storytelling through photographic narratives based in Jewish folkloric motif.
Embodied as multi-faced tales, the photographs consider the presence of tension, unease, and potency within Jewish mythos. The bright world within the images is fogged over by the hot breath of upheaval. The bodily performance of texts becomes a throughline that forms the photographic spine of Jewish storytelling.
Through images that explore Jewish narrative structures, iconography, and repetition, the photographs build worlds that are sowed from a turbulent past and grow outwards towards the rumbling world to come.
HANNAH ALTMAN, Beidth al Tbeet (Eggs Overnight), 2023
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8
Installation view
HANNAH ALTMAN, Hiding (Flying), 2023
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8
HANNAH ALTMAN, Remembrance (After Chagall), 2023
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8
Installation view
HANNAH ALTMAN, Curing, 2022
15 x 12 inches | 38.1 x 30.48 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8
Installation view
HANNAH ALTMAN, Embody, 2023
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8
HANNAH ALTMAN, Headlock, 2023
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8
HANNAH ALTMAN, Pulling, 2021
15 x 12 inches | 38.1 x 30.48 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
HANNAH ALTMAN, A Story That Changes Depending on Who Shares It, 2022
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 8